Segregation and Accommodation

Question 1

Booker T. Washington believed that African American accommodation to segregation should be accompanied by

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hard work, self-improvement, and patience.

Question 2

Which statement best describes the relationship between Jim Crow laws and the "separate but equal" doctrine?

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Jim Crow laws were designed to enforce this doctrine by requiring racial segregation for public facilities.

Question 3

The court case Plessy v. Ferguson challenged the legality of

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racially segregated train cars.

Question 4

Read the quotation from Justice John Marshall Harlan in his Plessy v. Ferguson dissent in 1896.“Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.” The views Harlan expressed in this quotation were

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later adopted by the Supreme Court in the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Question 5

Which of the following directly violated the intent of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution?

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poll taxes

Question 6

In Plessy v. Ferguson, Homer Plessy claimed that “separate but equal” violated his rights under the

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Fourteenth Amendment.

Question 7

During the Jim Crow era, southern states imposed poll taxes and literacy tests in order to

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prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote.

Question 8

Which of the following best describes Booker T. Washington?

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a civil rights leader who was born into slavery and later worked to achieve racial equality

Question 9

Read the quotation from Booker T. Washington's 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech.“[P]rogress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.” In this quotation, Washington is expressing his view that

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the government cannot legislate equality.

Question 10

Booker T. Washington believed that the best strategy to end racial segregation was for African Americans to

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adapt to it as they worked to gain equality.

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